Re: x and virtual consoles
On Tuesday 06 August 2019 09:22:15 Curt wrote:
> On 2019-08-06, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Curt wrote:
> >> LightDM's dm-tool command can be used to allow multiple users to be
> >> logged in on separate ttys. The following will send a signal
> >> requesting that the current session be locked and then will
> >> initiate a switch to LightDM's greeter, allowing a new user to log
> >> in to the system.
> >
> > it says multiple users - not the same user
>
> curty@einstein:~/glimmer$ man dm-tool
> <snipperooney>
> switch-to-greeter
> Switch to the greeter suitable for logging into a new
> session.
>
> Says "logging into a new *session*." (emphasis mine).
>
> Let's ask Gene to try it and report back.
I did, created a user test, logged in, but when I came back to the
machine 10 minutes later, the screen was locked and showing gene as the
default login.
I've shut it down as I needed to switch cards and boot a stretch that
works with linuxcnc. But I'm also installing a new upper countershaft
and bearings for one end of it as a metal spray failed and wrecked the
bearings. So I bought a new shaft but it had no woodruff key seats cut.
Thats been fun, the shaft is hardened to 60C and carbide tooling is
dulled instantly. So I used that tool up trying to EDM the keyway, but
ran out of broken 1/8" carbide to serve as the electrode. Finally wound
up with it rigged in my 4 axis gantry, mill and using 3/4" cutoff
wheels, stacked 4 thick on a dremel arbor being spun by a 1.5 horse
water cooled motor, at 24k rpms, was able to get it done.
And I'll run the stretch install until a pi4 gets here, if I even get it
back together before the pi4 arrives. Since new bearings won't be here
till Thursday late, I'll be Friday pulling those in, then Saturday will
be wasted putting the spindle back together with new powertwist belting
hanging down into the drive, then Sunday back to sitting on a very low
creeper/stool trying to put this shaft back in with belts that may be a
link short. That involves putting a taperlock hub into the pulley that
drives those belts, making an even shorter arm allan wrench to tighten
the taperlock I made because the pulley bore was washed out, and
tightening that is a multistep process that takes several hours due to
lack of space to properly run that allen wrench. I can only tighten one
screw 1/6th turn at time, then rotate to bring the next of 3 screws
reachable. But it will be tight enough when done that the lack of a key
is a never mind. It will not slip.
I haven't over the years, cared for my back all that well, been pushed
too hard too many times, so 2 crushed disks pinning my sciatic nerves
isn't fun. Its painfull, and sometimes my legs do not do what my brain
tells them to, so I may have to kill some time resting to recouperate.
Getting old isn't for wimps as I'm finding out while looking for some
reason to celebrate my 85th in a couple months. I guess that makes me
officially an old fart?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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